Legislative candidates spell out platforms in Merrick

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Pugliese focused almost exclusively on taxes throughout the forum. During Curran’s tenure, the Baldwin Board of Education passed “a 25 percent tax increase in four years,” Pugliese said. “I can’t afford a tax increase like that. I don’t know about you. And if that’s what she’s going to do on the Baldwin School Board, I don’t know what she’s going to do on the Nassau County Legislature, but we need to keep our taxes down.”

Sid Tanenbaum, who lived in Woodmere and owned a metal-stamping shop in Far Rockaway, where he was known more for his charitable ways than his two-handed set shot, has been honored for the past 30 years with a basketball tournament that raises scholarship money for students in the Five Towns.